Tim May
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
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| Bowling type | Right-arm offbreak | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 24 | 47 |
| Runs scored | 225 | 39 |
| Batting average | 14.06 | 9.75 |
| 100s/50s | -/- | -/- |
| Top score | 42* | 15 |
| Balls bowled | 6577 | 2504 |
| Wickets | 75 | 39 |
| Bowling average | 34.74 | 45.43 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 3 | - |
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a |
| Best bowling | 5/9 | 3/19 |
| Catches/stumpings | 6/- | 3/- |
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As of 12 December 2005 |
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Timothy Brian Alexander May (born January 26, 1962, North Adelaide, South Australia) is a former Australian and South Australian cricketer. He played in 24 Tests and 47 One-day International matches between 1987 and 1995.
He was an off-spin bowler who was better in Tests than ODI's. His best bowling was 5/9 in 1992/93 against the West Indies in the 4th Test in Adelaide.
May's Test bowling average of nearly 35 is worse than the leading spinners of the 1990s, such as Saqlain Mushtaq and Shane Warne, but nevertheless better than many other Australian spin bowlers at the time.
Though not a good fielder, May was habitually 12th man for Australia, who had towel and drinks in his hands instead of bat and ball. On one occasion during the 1992–93 World Series Cup, May was substituting for Dean Jones, who was injured during the Australian innings by a Waqar Younis short delivery. May dropped Rameez Raja at extra cover, forcing an injured Jones to return. Mike Atherton has stated that May was the best off-spin bowler that he has ever faced, claiming that it is not important to have a 'doosra'.
In 1997, May was appointed the inaugural CEO of the Australian Cricketers' Association and more recently CEO of the International Players Association. In June 2005 he was appointed as the CEO of the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA), based in Austin, Texas. It was during his tenure that the revelations of Mark Waugh and Shane Warne being bribed by bookies came to lime light. May was believed to be personally responsible for the idea and staging of the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal match in 2004.
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